Quaintrelle

In between a 180-mile-long escarpment called the Allegheny Front and a serpentine, tree-covered ridge of quartzite and sandstone called...

I can say that the sky was bluebird and bright, punctuated by one-dimensional, cartoony clouds. But if my memory speaks correctly, the...

Off I went with the neighbor boy, Dana, behind the abandoned A&P grocery store across the street. I don’t know where you were. Somewhere...

There is no wind there. Nothing moves unless forced to do so, and there is no force there besides a dollop of gravity. And even if you...

The lady with white hair lifts the digested pinecone to her nose and smells it. The voided pinecone was gifted to her because she is the...

“…for the snow comes not to cover but reveal the woods I thought I knew laid out like a banquet” -Dave Bonta On the first day of the...

It feels like a very slight, thin, barely-there hair is dragging along the outer length of my left hand. I ignore it the first and second...

I pull over to the side of the road where there’s enough space for one, maybe two vehicles. Vehicles slosh past me in the rain. My hair...

An ear to the canopy, I followed my dog Silas who is also my sensei of joy and dirt. Although his panting and snout-guided trampling...

“All is well as long as we keep spinning, here and now, dancing behind a wall. And the old songs and laugher within are forgiven, always,...